NEWS: Items from The Cambria Freeman, August 26, 1904, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, August 26, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 34 Local and Personal M. J. Stoltz has been awarded the contract for hauling the mail from the post office to the depot. Four hundred dollars a year. Oliver Evans, contractor, transcontinental traveler, good fellow and all around judge of real estate has been appointed assessor in the West ward. On the square, Oliver, you have tackled one of the biggest jobs you ever saw. School opens on September 5. Miss Myrtle Myers is visiting friends in the Summit. Miss Emily Hefflebower is visiting Mrs. Fred Barker. Miss Myrtle Myers is visiting in Cresson this week. Webster Black of Pitcairn is visiting relatives here. Mr. John Philips of Pittsburg is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. James spent Tuesday in Greensburg. Howard Evans of Philadelphia is visiting Mr. Cyrus Jones. Mrs. W. H. Thompson is on the sick list. An attack of tonsillitis. W. A. McCune has returned from a week's visit at Atlantic City. Robert Owens of Johnstown is visiting relatives in this place. Miss JeJunie Dinsmore is suffering from a severe attack of tonsillitis. Mr. Robert E. Treese of this place paid Altoona a business visit Monday. James McCann editor of the Lilly SIGNAL was in this place on Tuesday. Sam Humphrey of Braddock spent several days in town last week. Mrs. Ellen Powell of Johnstown is visiting her brother, Mr. T. D. Evans. R. R. Thomas and Howard Evans of Johnstown spent Tuesday in this place. Mrs. Tom Shoemaker and family of Bellefonte are visiting Mrs. Maud Collins. Mr. W. H. Piper of Johnstown was among the business visitors in this place Thursday. Mrs. Timothy Jones has as her guest Miss Edna Thomas of Hollidaysburg. Mr. James Rhue, Jr., of Johnstown spent Wednesday among his many friends in this place. Mr. S. J. Market of Vintondale paid this office a call while in town on business Tuesday. Ex-County Treasurer E. F. Spencer of Van Ormer was a business visitor in this place Monday. Mrs. C. A. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Glass of South Fork are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fes Lloyd. Mr. Louis Burr and family have returned from a month's visit with relatives in Patton. The bricklayers have commenced work on the new residence of Mr. F. H. Barker in the East ward. Messrs. H. A. Shoemaker and Jonathan Owens of this place were Johnstown visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Shoemaker returned on Monday from a visit to relatives in Vineland, N. J. Dr. and Mrs. James Lemmon of Latrobe spent several days this week with Miss Julia Lemmon. Rev. R. R. Roberts of Gomer, O., occupied the pulpit in the North Ebensburg church on Sunday. Mrs. Patrick Gallagher of Youngstown, Ohio, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Darragh. Miss Eliza Bishop of Harrisburg is visiting her sister, Miss Julia Bishop at her summer home here. Mrs. A. V. Barker, Mrs. Web Griffith and Mrs. Hattie Zahm spent Wednesday and Thursday in Johnstown. Harvey Van Andlen, formerly of this place, now of Cresson, is suffering from a severe attack of erysipelas. Mrs. Harry Squiers and family of Braddock are visiting Mrs. Squier's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Davis. Tom Evans and George Dunegan have returned from a trip through New York State with the Patton ball team. Carl McKendrick and family of Baltimore who have been visiting relatives here for several weeks returned home on Tuesday. Messrs. Peter Redinger and C. Peach of this place were in Windber Wednesday taking in the Firemen's Convention which is in progress there this week. John Sechler has accepted the position of Secretary of the Ebensburg Agricultural Association and matters pertaining to the coming fair are looming. John Jones and family of Pittsburg who have been spending the past two weeks with Mr. Jones' mother, Mrs. Mary Jones, returned home on Tuesday. Rev. George Hill former pastor of the First Congregational Church of this place is seriously ill in a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where he has been operated upon for kidney trouble. Messrs. Philip Schettig, Clifford Jones, and D. H. Shoemaker of this place are among a crowd of young people from Patton and surrounding towns who are spending ten days in camp near Mahaffey. Among the excursionists to Atlantic City are Misses Mary and Leah Hughes, Mary Evans, Stella, Josephine and Hortense Dunegan, Philip Bender, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Zahm and James McClune and family. Ehrenfeld Notes, Ehrenfeld, Pa., Aug. 22: John Patsala, a Slav, was committed to jail Monday by Squire Simending in default of bail, charged by John Madigan with larceny. He was caught by John Madigan in the chicken coop at 11 o'clock Saturday night. There had been chickens stolen from the place right along. Jos. Alanasha, a Slav, was sent to Ebensburg jail last Friday in default of bail for carrying concealed weapons and threatening to kill James Burns. Bright News from Patton Miss Mildred Brown of Huntingdon is visiting her uncle, E. C. Brown, on Beech avenue. Mildred is a bright little girl and a great favorite with her many young lady friends. Grandpa Lingle is very happy in having as his guests the interesting little Todd children of Philipsburg. Harry Lewis of Ft. Smith, I. T., is visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. G. Lewis on Fifth avenue. Miss Teresa Williams entertained a large number of friends last Thursday evening at her handsome apartments in the Cowher building. Grace and Ruby Cowher returned Tuesday from a visit to Indiana County. Wm. Gill, our faithful and vigilant policeman, started for St. Louis last Saturday to take in the wonders of the great show. We appeal to the lawless element of our community to remain peaceable and orderly until his return. The Greek Catholic congregation have placed a fine large bell upon their place of worship. The following young folks are spending ten days in camp near Mahaffey: Misses Helen and Loretto Prindible, Gertrude Noonan, Ada Mellon, Agnes Donnelly, Mollie, Fannie and Emily Mellon of Patton; Bertha Sharbaugh of Carrolltown; Messrs. Cliff Jones, Dr. Shoemaker and Phil Schettig of Ebensburg; Dr. Baldwin of Hastings; Wm. Prindible, George Prindible, Howard Dinsmore, Rudy Mellon of Patton. Mrs. Dr. Worrell as chaperon will see that they behave nicely. Miss Emily Mellon ably fills the important position of purveyor and keeps the larder bountifully supplied with good substantial food. Dr. Baldwin provides the fish and Wm. Prindible furnishes the game. Gertrude Noonan and Phil Schettig prepare the viands while Agnes Donnelly and "Danby" Dinsmore take charge of the dining room. The evenings are delightfully spent sitting around the blazing wood fire, killing mosquitoes, telling tales and singing songs. Ada Mellon and Dr. Shoemaker have magnificent voices and contribute greatly to the pleasure. Helen Prindible and Cliff Jones excel at telling tales and Bertha Sharbaugh being a fine elocutionist favors the company with choice recitations. The rest fight. Meade Sommerville and Ruel Cowher drove to Lumber City last week and spent a couple of days with a camping party at that place. Dr. W. A. Blair was at Mahaffey Saturday on professional business. Howard Dinsmore has disposed of "Nips" to some dog fancier, receiving from him the sum of fifty dollars. We wish that some dog fancier would come and buy the balance of the stock in town, amounting to 2001 head. Patton has more noisy worthless curs than any town in the State. Ralph Good drove his new automobile from Lock Haven to Patton one day last week. It took six hours to make the trip. On Friday he had it put out on exhibition and caused much excitement as it is a rare circumstance to have one in our town. Some of our citizens were favored by being invited to take a ride, among them being, W. H. Sanford of the First National Bank; this gentleman did not appear enthusiastic as he passed our office at a twenty mile clip for he looked as if he would much rather have been sitting in his cozy counting room, discounting gilt edged paper then tempting providence and frightening horses. W. C. Hubbard has commenced at active canvass in his campaign for Assembly and is button-holing every voter he meets, and no doubt kissing all the babies he comes across. Wm. knows how to work politics and is in the business this time to win. Misses Teresa Jane Williams and Ethel Smith spent last Sunday at Altoona. Mrs. W. H. Denlinger and children, Mae and Anna Mary, accompanied by Miss Susan Daughterty went to Clearfield Friday to be absent three weeks. The game of ball Saturday between the Junior club of Ebensburg and Patton Athletics was called off at the end of the first inning on account of rain. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Patterson of Pittsburg spent several days this week at the home of E. C. Brown. Wm. Denlinger, Jr., has gone to Adams county to visit friends. Harry A. Leiden and Miss Jennie Crain returned last Saturday from St. Louis where they had spent a week doing the Exposition. James Lindbloom and Miss Myrtle Crain of Butler were of the same party. During the absence of Mrs. Worrell and daughter, who are spending ten days at camp near Mahaffey the doctor is taking his meals at the Windsor. The change of fare is doing him lots of good and his emaciated frame is taking on flesh so rapidly that in a short time he will present as portly an appearance as does Postmaster Green. Dr. H. W. Bailey is entertaining his father, Thomas H. Bailey of Mansfield, Penna. Mrs. John Prindible and children are visitors at the Prindible mansion on Fifth avenue. Miss Margaret Garland, a comely young lady of Sandy Ridge, is visiting at the house of Howard Woemer. A. C. Fisher has commenced the erection of a handsome residence on the lot recently purchased from C. C. Greninger on Fifth Avenue. "Judge" Mellon turned the key on the temple of justice and W. J. Donnelly stopped the whirr of the machinery in his planing mill last Tuesday afternoon to witness the notable Johnstown-Patton ball game. They went expecting to see some great playing nor where they disappointed. It certainly was great. Oscar Kinkead of Ebensburg was in luck last Tuesday. He happened (?) to be in Patton that day and made a bet of 10 to 1 on Johnstown. As a matter of course he won. With his proverbial generosity he has decided to donate the entire amount to some deserving charity in Cambria county. Applications for a portion or all of the fund should be sent to him immediately. Geo. S. Good of Lock Haven is spending a few days in Patton looking after his varied interests at this place. Joseph Campbell, mine foreman at Portage, spent a few days this week at the home of his brother, Frank, on Magee avenue. Aside from the social feature of his visit, he was after a few pointers in regard to the latest and most improved methods of mining coal and Frank is in a position to enlighten him. Miss Iona Sandford who has been spending the last few weeks at the quiet little village of Philipsburg returned home Monday. She was accompanied by her friend, Miss Helen Irish, who will remain some time and who will be a great acquisition to Patton's young society. M. J. Stoltz, the handsome host of the Mountain House, Ebensburg, was among the numerous onlookers at Tuesday's ball game. He drove down and for good intelligent and genial company brought H. G. Andrews with him. E. W. Hess, C. E. of Clearfield with a corps of assistants started Monday to survey and locate the trolley line around "the horn." They commenced at the railroad station and will go via Hastings. It will take about one month to complete their work and there will then be nothing to do but build the roadway and lay the track. It is hoped the work will proceed rapidly that it may be finished some time during the winter. Coal Miner Injured Charles Wargo, a Slavish laborer, working in the coal mines at Gallitzin was seriously and probably fatally injured Saturday afternoon while at work. Wargo had been engaged in digging coal and after working continuously all day was caught in some falling coal shortly before quitting work. The coal dropped from the top of the mine, almost covering him. He sustained body bruises about the hips and was probably injured internally. Severely Injured On Tuesday afternoon, Mary, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hoover of Carroll township, had her left leg severely cut by a reaper. The injury was a serious one and may cause the loss of the limb. Indiana Post Office Robbed The post office at Mitchell's Mills, Indiana county was robbed Monday night of money and stamps to the value of $450. Lost in the Woods On last Friday evening Bertha and Gertrude Cassiday, aged 14 and 16 years, daughters of Robert Cassiday of Ebensburg; Margaret Cassiday of Altoona, aged 12, and Mazie Bumford, aged 15 years, were lost from a late hour Friday night until they were found at 9 o'clock Saturday morning in the woods near the Bumford farm. The three girls first mentioned went to the new Catholic cemetery a mile west of Ebensburg Friday afternoon and afterwards went on out to the Bumford farm where Mazie Bumford joined the party. The four then walked down out the road. About a mile beyond the Bumford farm they were met by a party of four men in a wagon. One of these fellows jumped from the wagon and made after the girls, who, becoming frightened, ran into the woods, thinking to come out on the road below the wagon. Instead they became bewildered and lost their way. They remained in the woods until 9 o'clock Saturday morning when Edwin Bumford, Robert Cassiday and Albert Apel found the bedraggled quartet and brought them home. All night crowds of people had been in the neighborhood of where the girls were lying but they, thinking that the party was that encountered on the pike, did not answer the calls. For the sake of the good name of the men of this district it is presumed that the fellows who frightened the girls were simple minded. Certainly the right minded man would not do such a thing. "Bad Man" Rounded Up Under the direction of County Detective Knee, the Constable of Lilly Borough on Saturday made an information before Squire C. A. McGonigle of Lilly, charging James Martz with felonious cutting and if the plans of the officers do not miscarry there will be something happening to the borough's "bad man." The information made was the result of an assault which the defendant is alleged to have perpetrated upon Samuel Walker and Vincent Farrell in and near Smith's Hotel, at Lilly, August 13th. Walker received a cut about one and one half inches long in the left side of the neck and Farrell was cut in the arm. The weapon used was a knife of some kind. There seems to have been absolutely no provocation for the fight. Farrell was in the bar room when injured and the other man was outside in the alley. Martz is alleged to have reached out through a window to get at him. Martz is said to be a man who always carries a gun or a knife and who has put the people of Lilly in mortal fear. His scrapes have never been investigated until this time and it was upon the call of a number of citizens that county Detective Knee took the matter in hand and now proposes to see that the charges against Martz are pushed. The arrest of the defendant in the near future is confidently expected. Found Headless Body About 8 o'clock Monday night the headless trunk of an unknown man was found a short distance west of Kittanning Point, near Gallitzin, by the trackwalker. The left leg was also ground off. The remains were taken to Altoona and turned over to Undertaker Lafferty. It is believed that the man was a tramp and that he was killed while walking along the tracks. There was not a thing about him that might lead to his identification. The wheels evidently ran over the back part of his head for there was nothing left of it but the skin of the face and strangely enough the skin was unmarked. Deputy Coroner McCartney of Blair county is trying to have the unfortunate identified. The man was about 30 years old, weight about 200 pounds, has a fair complexion and grey eyes. He wore a black coat and vest, brown corduroy trousers and blue and white striped shirt. With him was a bundle in which were two suits of underwear, a shirt, two towels, two laundered collars and a new necktie. Will Build His Own Scaffold Sheriff J. P. Staver of Clearfield, has issued cards to those who will be permitted to witness the execution of John Williams, alias "Black Spot," which takes place September 1st. The work of erecting the scaffold has started and "Black Spot" asked to be allowed to help with it. Good Choppers Anyway Those mighty sons of Nimrod R. S. Tibbott, Jos. Davis, Lester Larimer and Robert Scanlan spent Tuesday night in the woods and bosky dells near this place. They were after coons - a long away after. After chopping down a tree and finding a friendly sort of little squirrel they came home. Game Cock Attacks Child Elizabeth Garrigan, four years old, is under a physician's care at her home in Charleroi suffering from serious injuries inflicted by a rooster. The fowl, which is one of the game variety, attacked the child while playing in a yard. The rooster first rushed at the child with such force as to knock her down. Then it cut her viciously with its spurs. Her forehead was laid open and her face fearfully slashed by the sharp spurs. Neighbors attracted by the child's screams of pain drove the cock away. Convention at Barnesboro H. A. Rinard, field worker for the Sabbath School Association, who spent several days last week in the northern section of the county in the interest of organization, has divided Cambria County into fifteen districts of which District No. 11 comprises the townships of Susquehanna, Barr and Carroll, and the boroughs of Barnesboro and Spangler. In this district, which has twelve school, Mr. Rinard has arranged for a convention of workers in Barnesboro on Tuesday, August 30th. A program of interesting topics will be discussed and a permanent organization effected. Letters Issued Estate of Elizabeth C. Buchanan, of Scalp Level, to J. W. Buchanan. Estate of Clara Fisher, late of East Conemaugh, to Wm. M. Fisher. Estate of Elizabeth Hunt, late of Johnstown, to Scott Dibert. Estate of Mary I. Lilly, late of Munster township. Will probated. Estate of C. W. Hoffman, late of Belsano, Blacklick township, to Alice Hoffman. Estate of Susannah Weaver, late of Richland Township, to Abram Hostetler. Estate of Sarah A. Kuntze, late of Johnstown to Mary G. Beilstein. Estate of Joseph Mock, late of Franklin, to Susan Mock. Estate of John Dienhart, late of Johnstown, to John Zwick. Estate of Benjamin Gobin, late of Johnstown, to Mary Gobin. New Buildings for Spangler Stolz & James of Spangler are getting material on the ground for the foundation of a new splendid hotel building. The new structure will be 40x62 feet and three stories in height, cased in brick. John J. Westover, formerly proprietor of the Sullivan House, Spangler, is laying the foundation for a cozy residence on Crawford avenue, North Spangler. The house will be 28x36 and finished in good style. Advertisements Photographer: L. G. HORNICK Photographer Studio, Room 18, Barker Building Sittings each Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Day or Night Rain or Shine All work guaranteed to be First-Class L. G. Hornick Brewery: Now on the Market Try It Patton Pure Brew! Made from the highest grade of Hops and Malt. Sold at all the leading bars. Phones: Bell Local THE PATTON BREWING CO. Patton, Penna. Liquors: Drink Hannan's Pure Rye M. E. HANNAN, Wholesale Dealer in Wines and Liquors, No. 406 Washington St., Johnstown, Pa. Retailers improved their trade, consumers improve their health by trying "Hannan's Pure Rye," "Monogram" and "Tom Johnson" Brands of Whiskies. Physicians say a pure whiskey is a tower of strength for the strong, an invigorator for the weak. Drink Hannan's Pure Rye. Cemetery Work: J. WILKINSON & SON., Ebensburg, Pa. Manufacturers of the Highest Grade of Cemetery Work From the Best Marbles and Granites Produced. Parties Who are Looking for Good Work, Good Stock, Properly Erected, And at Reasonable Prices, Will find it to their advantage to correspond with us. Transportation: We Can't Interest: The Man who prefers to walk, the man who cares for neither comfort nor style, the man who will not believe that our Vehicles and Harness are the most economical at this price. But if you don't belong to any of these classes we can interest you with an elegant line of: BUGGIES! SURRIES! RUNABOUTS! SPRING WAGONS! HARNESS! A full line of the famous BROOKVILLE FARM and LUMBER WAGONS always kept in stock. Give us your phone or mail orders. SCHETTIG BROS. Ebensburg, Pa. Exposition: Better than any World's Fair: The NEW EXPOSITION AT PITTSBURG Opens Wednesday, August 31. Six Superb Musical Organizations: Creatore, Sousa, Herbert, Damrosch, Banda Rossa, and Boy's N. Y. Symphony Orchestra. Every foot of exhibitor's space applied for twice over. Half a Score of Extraordinary Special Attractions: "A Trip to the North Pole" Giant Ferris Wheel Colored Moving Pictures High Class Vaudeville St. Louis World's Fair in Miniature Postal Card Photographs The Snake Slide The Temple of Mirth Senic (sp) Railway And Flying Horses Admission as of old 25 cts. Half-fare railroad excursions from every city within a radius of 100 miles from Pittsburg. Fair: Biggest & Best of Them All The INTERSTATE FAIR Gentlemen's' Driving Park, Westmont Johnstown, Penna. Aug. 30-31, Sept 1-2, 1904 Trotting and Pacing Races Each Day! $3,500 in Premiums - $5,200 in Race Purses Over $1,000 in Free Acts Monday - General Assembly Day Tuesday - Firemen's Day Wednesday - Farmer's Day Thursday - Merchant's Day Friday - Children's Day Band Concerts Every Afternoon! Excursion Rates on All Railroads ! All Entries must be on the grounds by Monday noon. Charles Young, President Dr. McKohler, Secretary Trusses: It Gives the Best Results Light Anatomically Correct The "Smithsonian Truss" Holds in Any Position For Sale, Fitted and Recommended by Dr. T. J. DAVISON, Ebensburg, Pa. Beer: "Twas always good, but 'tis better now than ever" GOENNER BEER Warranted not to Contain any Deleterious Drugs On tap at all leading bars in the county. Goenner & Co., Johnstown, Pa. Beer: Ask for It. Something New Once Tasted, Always Used CRESSON SPRINGS BEER Brewed from choice malt and hops and the famous Cresson spring water. On tap at first-class bars on and after May 2nd, 1904. Ask for it. World's Fair Some $15,000 was appropriated by the State of Pennsylvania for an exhibition of its agricultural resources and products at the St. Louis Exposition. The money has all been spent and the exhibit produced according to the Philadelphia NORTH AMERICAN, consists of a display of about $17 worth of pumpkin and other seeds bought in St. Louis and an array of patent breakfast foods manufactured in Michigan. Great indignation is naturally being manifested among agricultural societies throughout the state and an inquiry as to what became of the money will doubtless ensue. Probably the Pennsylvania farmers are more surprised over the revelations than people outside of the State who are better acquainted with the character of the State government then those farmers have been supporting them at the polls these many years.